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Few artists can weather the storm of an album leak ONE MONTH ahead of its release date, speak less debut at #1 with the same project. However, such was the fortune of rapper A$AP Rocky, who we caught up with in London over the weekend.

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The ‘F**king Problems’ MC was in town to promote his scorching debut ‘Long.Live.A$AP’, which topped the Billboard 200 this week and charted at #7 on the Official UK Album Chart on Sunday.

Watch above as the 24 year old dishes on his journey to the “major leagues”, homophobia in Hip-Hop, his album, and much more.

Of course Beyonce would take songwriting credits for songs she had no part in since songwriters are the ones making the big bucks rather than the artists that don’t write music. Beyonce feels the need to be at the top of the Forbes list every year, so she’ll do what she can to be the most successful. She also has Jay to give her some pointers on how to be a greedy ass b****! I don’t see how someone could claim to be such a Christian, but she’s up her taking credit for music she knows damn well she ain’t have no part in.

I don’t see the problem with her just being recognized as the artist that brings a song to life. Whitney, Jennifer Hudson, Britney, Fantasia, Aaliyah, and Monica don’t write a lot of their music (that make the albums) and their doing just fine. I will give Bey props to be able to come up with great harmonies and adlibs, but she needs to stop fronting with her tacky ass lacefront. How the hell she have a beautician, but her damn weave always lookin’ frizzy???

My best friend she has just announced her wedding with a handsome biker, they met on motodating-a great site for motorcycle singles and friends to get to know each other, make new friends, talk about interests, or to help each other. Maybe you can take a try.

BEYONCE WE KNOW RIH, INSPIRES YOU…
Gearing up for what looks all set to be an internet-halting comeback, Beyonce has recently unveiled a brand new official blog, where she will be sharing details of her lifestyle. “The BeyHive Blog is my way of showing all the inspiring things I come across every single day,” wrote Beyonce, in an open letter on the site. “This is through my eyes…”

The site also aims to pay tribute to her fans: “I’m also featuring beautiful creations from my talented fans,” the ‘Love on Top’ singer explained. “So many of you are making videos, painting. I want to show the world what you do and how much I appreciate you.”

Justin Bieber has overtaken Lady Gaga as the most followed person on Twitter.
The ‘Beauty and a Beat’ singer has amassed over four thousand more followers than the ‘Edge of Glory’ hitmaker, bringing his total to 33,331,355 and counting compared to Gaga’s 33,327,342 on the social networking site.
Gaga had held the title for almost three years since overtaking Britney Spears in 2010.
The ‘Born This Way’ star was also the first Twitter user to cross the 10 million followers threshold, and broke her own record by becoming the first user to cross 20 million followers and then 30 million.
Gaga previously tweeted about Justin’s growing Twitter following, saying: ”So proud of @justinbieber and all the Beliebers! I’m only happy to see your fans growing in size, you all deserve it! Monsters support you!”
Both singers have prominent fan bases on the website, with Justin’s fans nicknamed ‘Beliebers’, and Gaga’s branded ‘Little Monsters’.
Fellow pop stars Katy Perry and Rihanna, as well as American President Barack Obama, make up the top five most followed people on Twitter.
The 10 most followed Twitter accounts:
1. Justin Bieber (@justinbieber)
2. Lady Gaga (@ladygaga)
3. Katy Perry (@katyperry)
4. Rihanna (@rihanna)
5. Barack Obama (@BarackObama)
6. Britney Spears (@britneyspears)
7. Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13)
8. YouTube (@YouTube)
9. Shakira (@shakira)
10. Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian

LaxJanuary 26, 2013

kEITH,,,,
Slow Jams,,,,,,

LaxJanuary 26, 2013

Keith,,,
Slow Jam…

DTGJanuary 24, 2013

“Rihanna is cliche of everything that has ever been disingenuous about the music business. A soulless Barbie Doll, with plastic doll parts, who was plucked off the streets of no where and put on–simply because the outfit was her size. In other words: commerce…created and puppet mastered by money grubbing music executives as a tool to co-opt what is currently popular for fast cash, and pandered to the dingiest of music listeners who are not discerning enough to care.

You have to give the label, the management, the A&R people, the songwriters, the producers, the directors and the thousand other magicians involved their credit for being savvy enough to outfit this garden-variety debutante with material and promotion to keep her afloat…but let’s be real, there is nothing ‘special’ or ‘unique’ about Rihanna, herself. She has little talent, no personality or strong image, nor does she command the stage. Anyone could have been cast in the role Rihanna plays; she just lucked out. For all intents and purposes, Rihanna is akin to a can of Hormel Chili; basically a canned product with a label (and a ‘sell by’ date) on it.

The bottom line is that Rihanna was not built to last and is very “replaceable.” This is why she does not take breaks, and repetitiously puts out a generic by-the-numbers pop album every year. Being that she has little ‘star power,’ in order to sustain her momentum she has to continually strike while the iron is hot, while employing a multitude of petty ‘stunts’ to get attention (tacky wigs, brothel attire, referencing her tumultuous relationship Chris Brown years later.) The moment she sits down to catch her breath, ten more record label assembled chippies will be thrown into the ring and the last two standing will be the next “Rihanna.”

In 2013, no more do we need windup doll acts like Rihanna getting on camera and posing like an androidian cast-off from America’s Next Top Model, while vapidly bleating over an empty dance track, hanging around longer than the fifteen minutes that is typically allotted for manufactured pop stars such as her. It’s just getting sad now, and the quality is dipping. Gone are the pseudo-interesting songs like “Umbrella,” now she is peddling random, monotonous dead air like “We Found Love.” The girl has run her course; at this point she is on autopilot and is fast becoming the equivalent of a skipping record.”

Rhianna Equals Elvis’ UK Record
Rihanna scores 5th UK number one single to equal Elvis record
Rihanna scores her fifth UK number one single as What’s My Name featuring Drake climbs from last week’s number two to take pole position in the new Official Singles Chart.

Rihanna is now the first female solo artist in chart history to achieve five number one singles in consecutive years. The only other solo artist to equal this achievement was Elvis Presley in the 1950s.

Rihanna’s album Loud stays at number one in the Official Albums Chart this week giving the Barbadian born, US based artist the second UK chart double of her career.

LaxJanuary 25, 2013

@THE END OF THE DAY IT MATTERS A DAM WHAT YOU THINK,,,
RIHANNA IS STILL PAID!!!!

Rihanna was once again the big star of the MTV Video Music Awards. RiRi opened the show performing “Cockiness (Love It)” feat. A$AP Rocky and “We Found Love” feat. Calvin Harris. Unfortunately, she did not win Best Female Video and Best Pop Video, however, she took home the top honor: Video Of The Year for “We Found Love”.

OVOForeverJanuary 24, 2013

Ok Sam, i see you killing these b****** now. When are you gonna interview my king though.

Over the past few days, media outlets have been accusing Beyonce of stealing her Billboard Awards stage show from Italian singer Lorella Cuccarinni, who performed an almost identical show in 2010. A side by side comparison video has also surfaced that points out the similarities in both Beyonce and Lorella’s performances.

Before the accusations had the chance to spiral completely out of control, Beyonce sat down with AOL Music and admitted that her performance was influenced by the Italian singer.

BEYONCE TALKING YALL,,,,
My makeup artist showed me the performance of Lorella Cuccarini a year ago, and it inspired me so much. I then met with the talented people who worked on it. The technology and concept were so genius. Thank god for YouTube or I would have never been exposed to something so inspiring. I never worked so hard on anything in my life as that performance for the Billboard Awards.”

RIHANNA REMEMBER TO SAY U WAS “INSPIRED” AND EVERYTHING WILL BE JUST FINE.

LaxJanuary 25, 2013

BEYONCE SAYS OUT OF HER OWN MOUTH THAT
SHES THANKS GOD FOR YOUTUBE, READ IT FOR YOURSELF…
RIHANNA KEEP WATCHING YOUTUBE TO GET NEW IDEAS,,,,ROTF,,,,LMAO.
BEYONCE IS LOOKING ON YOUTUBE TO TRY AND FIGURE OUT HOW IN THE HELL RIHANNA GOT OVER
200MILLION VIEWS FOR WE FOUND LOVE
OVER 200MILLION FOR RUDE BOY
285 WHAT’S MY NAME
EMINEM AND RIH HAVE OVER 500MILLION VIEWS FOR
LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE….
DIAMONDS ALREADY OVER 150 MILLION YOUTUBE VIEWS, COUNTING.
WHILE DANCE FOR YOU GOT LESS THEN 35 MILLION I WONDER WHY?????????????????????????????

LaxJanuary 25, 2013

BEYONCE’S
There have been a lot of rumors around Beyonce’s pregnancy lately, she has been accused of faking it, the whole thing! This came from a video of her appearance on Australian TV show ‘Sunday Night’, showing her wearing a tight red dress, and her baby bump seemingly doing a weird thing while she sat down on a chair, appearing to collapse inward. That was enough to fuel rumors about her wearing a prosthetic device and having paid a surrogate to carry Jay-Z’s baby.

This seems so ridiculous especially because pictures of her naked belly during her vacation in Croatia have surfaced, and there is obviously a real bump there.

But the rumor has long legs, as Iman wrote about it, she had already been accused to wear a fake bump at the MTV VMAs this summer, when she announced publicly the pregnancy,…. so it’s not something that gonna die soon!

LaxJanuary 25, 2013

BEYONCE RUMOR CONTROL,,,
Of course, Beyonce’s publicist Yvette Noel-Schure released a statement in response to the rumor: ‘Stupid, ridiculous and false’.
But Beyonce has what she deserves, if she hadn’t made her belly the center of the world’s attraction during her dramatic announcement at the VMAs, just in the hope to boost the sales of her album (and it worked!), this would not be happening.

Rihanna passed Eminem as most-liked celeb on Facebook. According to Starcount, Rhi Rhi has 61,564,736, while Em has 61,217,673. They were followed by Lady Gaga and Michael Jackson.

Rihanna has quickly become one of the world’s most popular social celebrities. Last July, she dethroned Lady Gaga as the top female celeb on Facebook. Am I the only one surprised to see Akon in the Top 10?

On YouTube, she’s in the second spot after Justin Bieber. On Twitter, she’s fourth behind Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry. Starcount ranked Rihanna as the third most popular social media star in the world after Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber.

DON’T HATE APPRECIATE, WHAT IS WRONG WITH RIH SHOWING SKIN,,,LIKE BEYONCE DID A LONG TIME AGO WHEN RIH’S ASS WAS STILL IN BARBADO’S SINGING TO THAT HAIR BRUSH MIC,,,
BEY LOOKED HOT AND S*** HERE , I LIKED THE COVER
BACK THEN AND WAS HAPPY THAT A S*** BEAUTIFUL SISTA WAS REPRESENTING,,,,,

However, there was no opportunity for Ms. Knowles-Carter to rehearse with the Marine Band before the Inauguration so it was determined that a live performance by the band was ill-advised for such a high-profile event. Each piece of music scheduled for performance in the Inauguration is prerecorded for use in case of freezing temperatures, equipment failure, or extenuating circumstances.
“Regarding Ms. Knowles-Carter’s vocal performance, no one in the Marine Band is in a position to assess whether it was live or prerecorded,” Wolf concluded.

The director of the Marine Band, Col. Michael J. Colburn, had explained to NBC News they prerecord all of their music if there’s a chance of inclement weather and that Beyoncé, not having time to rehearse with them, had opted for her prerecorded track of the “Star-Spangled Banner.”
“Most significant event” of the weekend? The first lady’s bangs, says the president
But, as new No. 1 Beyoncé fan Piers Morgan points out, she still sang the national anthem, and got the approving nod from first lady Michelle Obama all the same.

LaxJanuary 25, 2013

“Whether she lip-synched or not, #Beyonce still sang the American national anthem better than anyone I’ve ever heard. Fact,” Morgan tweeted this afternoon. Facing a little backlash from the twitterverse, he reiterated, “Beyonce still SANG it, everyone. It was HER voice.”

LaxJanuary 25, 2013

She just didn’t sing it the way Kelly Clarkson sang “My Country Tis of Thee,” that’s all. Her rep confirms to E! News that Clarkson performed live yesterday. Meanwhile, we don’t want to speak for James Taylor, but…Has he ever been asked in his entire life about lip-syncing?

“ BEYONCE is cliche of everything that has ever been disingenuous about the music business. A soulless Barbie Doll, with plastic doll parts, who was plucked off the streets of no where and put on–simply because the outfit was her size. In other words: commerce…created and puppet mastered by money grubbing music executives as a tool to co-opt what is currently popular for fast cash, and pandered to the dingiest of music listeners who are not discerning enough to care.

You have to give the label, the management, the A&R people, the songwriters, the producers, the directors and the thousand other magicians involved their credit for being savvy enough to outfit this garden-variety debutante with material and promotion to keep her afloat…but let’s be real, there is nothing ‘special’ or ‘unique’ about BEYONCE, herself. She has little talent, no personality or strong image, nor does she command the stage. Anyone could have been cast in the role BEYONCE plays; she just lucked out. For all intents and purposes, BEYONCE is akin to a can of Hormel Chili; basically a canned product with a label (and a ‘sell by’ date) on it.

The bottom line is that BEYONCE was not built to last and is very “replaceable.” This is why she does not take breaks, and repetitiously puts out a generic by-the-numbers pop album every year. Being that she has little ‘star power,’ in order to sustain her momentum she has to continually strike while the iron is hot, while employing a multitude of petty ‘stunts’ to get attention (tacky wigs, brothel attire, referencing her tumultuous relationship Chris Brown years later.) The moment she sits down to catch her breath, ten more record label assembled chippies will be thrown into the ring and the last two standing will be the next “BEYONCE .”

In 2013, no more do we need windup doll acts like BEYONCE getting on camera and posing like an androidian cast-off from America’s Next Top Model, while vapidly bleating over an empty dance track, hanging around longer than the fifteen minutes that is typically allotted for manufactured pop stars such as her. It’s just getting sad now, and the quality is dipping. Gone are the pseudo-interesting songs like “Umbrella,” now she is peddling random, monotonous dead air like “We Found Love.” The girl has run her course; at this point she is on autopilot and is fast becoming the equivalent of a skipping record.”

Normally, I’m not a fan of comment moderation, but Sam, you might want to start moderating comments on ALL posts until this Beyonce vs Rihanna stan war dies down. It’s one thing to see these kind of comments in Beyonce and Rihanna posts, quite another to have scroll past them in posts that have NOTHING to do with either artist.

Never got into this dude….for one his name is a f****** joke, two he looks like a bone thugs n harmony reject from back in the day with those 90’s braids, last I just simply can’t & will not waste my time with his boring a** music.

There is nothing s*** about this dude at ALL.
He looks like the average hood guy
CD is okay. This site is becoming over ran with too many stans . . the stupid navy stans. They get gutted and dragged on every other site besides this one. That’s why they run to this one.
Sam its time for moderated comment sections.
Then again the messiness lines your pocket so it probably won’t happen.
Thumb me down all you want…who cares what a bunch of q***** and f** hags, who spend most of their time being internet bullies because they hate their lives in reality any way.

Hes bringing it really good and looking Great!
A$AP If only you get lucky and people Support your cause.
No matter how good you look or sound its all about them Sales!
And u r on a Roll right now but will that b ump last, that is the big
Question for all the Artist and not just you A$AP, But keep bringing the Heat.

Rihanna Second Vogue Cover,,,,
Rihanna couldn’t contain her excitement and shared an exclusive with her fans via Twitter when she tweeted (then deleted), “It’s a big day for me!!! I’m shooting my SECOND AMERICAN #VOGUE COVER and its with none other than thee Annie Lebovitz again! #VogueLife.”

Rihanna will once again grace the cover of the covetable Vogue magazine for a second time. Her first appearance was in April 2011.

The 24-year-old megastar isn’t afraid of fashion and her experimentation over the years have proven worthy of fashion magazines internationally. Yet she is one of the few sistahs in the world to land a Vogue cover twice.

@,,,,,,DTG, RIH HATERS, NAYSAYERS, DOUBTERS,,,
It’s no secret that Rihanna has found commercial success outside the U.S. But she has achieved a new milestone in the UK, where she reached record sales of 20 million, according to the Official Charts Company.

The controversial Bajan superstar has sold six million albums and 14 million singles since making her 2005 debut with Music of the Sun.

“Rihanna’s record, in selling more than 20 million records in the space of seven years, is truly staggering,” said Martin Talbort, the managing director of the Official Charts Company. “There certainly must have been something in the water when she – and Adele three months later – was born in spring 1988!”

During RiRi’s impressive run, the global superstar has achieved several musical milestones across the pond. Her Calvin Harris-produced single “We Found Love” has moved 1.14 million copies. The 24-year-old’s much talked about collaboration with rap icon Eminem “Love The Way You Lie” and the Loud single “Only Girl (In The World)” have also sold over a million copies.

Last November, Rihanna scored two No.1 albums—Loud and Talk That Talk—in the same year. Her biggest selling record still goes to 2007’s Good Girl Gone Bad, which has moved 1.85 million copies to date.

Aside from Rihanna’s sales figures, she made a splash this weekend on the UK’s big stage. She was joined by legendary hip-hop superstar and mentor Jay-Z during her spirited set at London’s Hackney Weekend 2012. —Keith Murphy, CBS Local

WHAT I RECOMMEND TO THE RIH HATERS IS TO KEEP RIGHT ON HATING AND SHTY TALKING RIHANNA’S EFFORTS,,,WHILE HIS-TO-RIH KEEP
RIGHT ON RECORDING RIH IN THEIR HISTORY BOOK…

Madonna, Rihanna biggest-selling female singles artists of all time…

Madonna has been named the biggest-selling female singles artist in UK chart history.
The iconic singer has sold over 17.8 million singles in the UK since her chart debut with ‘Holiday’ back in January 1984
The track peaked at number six and it wasn’t until 1985 that Madonna claimed her first UK number one single with ‘Into the Groove’.

However, Rihanna is quickly catching up with the legendary performer after shifting 11.4 million singles in the UK in just seven years, reports The Official Charts Company.
The Bajan star has sold over 3 million singles in the UK over the last year alone and could realistically overtake Madonna’s lead within the next two and half years.

Kylie Minogue is at number three will 10.2 million singles sold across her 25-year career, while Whitney Houston is at four (8.5m) and Lady GaGa is at five (7.329m).
The Official Biggest Selling Female Singles Artists of All Time are as follows:
1. Madonna (17.8m)
2. Rihanna (11.4m)
3. Kylie Minogue (10.2m)
4. Whitney Houston (8.5m)
5. Lady GaGa (7.329m)
6. Britney Spears (7.324m)
7. Beyoncé (6.9m)
8. Celine Dion (6.7m)
9. Mariah Carey (6.62m)
10. Olivia Newton John (6.61m)

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I see great things happening for him in the future, I hope he always stays collected like he seems to be in this interview.

I have yet to be impressed by the music though. I like “F*cking problems” but Drake and Lamar kind of outstaged him. I can wait for his “Superbass” so that everybody will now know what the hype was all about.